Thorfinn

I'm largely indifferent, so long as it isn't something absurd, like you have to keep a firepit going for a full day or something. That's what, 120 firewood? We already have people complaining about how much work it is to make charcoal. But air-drying for a day, maybe two, treated like like pelt curing or bowstave drying, sure, whatevs. Not sure it really adds anything, other than make things more difficult for new players.

One can probably figure out how to set bears other than sun and panda passive in bear.json: { code: "seekentity", "__comment": "Empty entity codes list means it will not actively seek creatures, but will still execute retaliatory attacks", entityCodesByType: { "*-panda": [], "*-sun": [], "*": ["player", "chicken-*", "hare-*", "fox-*", "raccoon-*", "pig-*", "sheep-*", "deer-*", "goat-*"] }, There are scads of codeblocks that tell you what the various bears are called so you can opt in only some of the bears, for example, movespeedByType: { "*-sun": 0.025, "*-panda": 0.025, "*-black": 0.04, "*-brown": 0.055, "*-polar": 0.06 }

I was misremembering. It returns 0.85. drops: [ { type: "block", code: "cob-none", quantity: { avg: 0.85, var: 0 } 0.83 was pretty darned close!

No, I'm pretty sure cob is much like mudbrick -- it returns less than 1 block. 0.7, I think, but it's been a long time since I looked.

To no one's surprise, I'm going to suggest making a couple dozen ladders so you can get a bird's eye view. That makes it SO much easier.

Welcome to the forums, @Mowdan Keep plugging away at it. Before long you will be putting something in offhand first thing to get the hunger penalty so you can eat more and get those sweet, sweet bonus HP.

No! I draw the line! There are plenty of games with that kind of garage. We don't need another game full of sax and violins!

Oh, sorry. I even somehow missed that mod in your rather impressive list, too. No, I don't know how to use it. I tried it and decided, "Nah. I've got more to do than carry a few blocks at a time. I'd almost certainly switch back to building everything out of dirt rather than attempting to transport bluestone menhirs across the leagues." Maybe you could just set the stack size of dirt, stone, sand, wood, etc., to 1? As I understand it, you would be capped out at carrying only 16 such if you had nothing else in inventory? Have you thought about adding some stone age cats? FotSA? Not Grendl, no, but accomplishes the same end, and has the right kind of feel to it. Might need to nerf their speed some if you have little to no ground cover, though. They are wicked fast, and I can only get away by scratching them off with the foliage, then approach them on my terms. [EDIT] Hey while I'm thinking of it, you could take a look at how DanaCraluminum (I think) set things up to carry one (and only one) leaking resin log at a time, and required both hands. If you set those attributes or behaviors or whatever it was to all the massive blocks, that might work. You could even self-impose rules about the kinds of things that could be carried in inventory; stuff that can fit in a belt pouch or scabbard are OK, everything else has to be hand-carried. [EDIT2] Oh, CarryOn does that, too, making you carry trunks in both hands. And, bonus, that's up to date, while the other may not be.

Sure. This ended up as a, well, really, several contentious threads a few months ago. Someone noticed the game is supposed to be an uncompromising wilderness survival game, that it says so right on the tin, and that it wasn't living up to it, and we were off to the races. I'll tell you what I tried to tell him. If you end up with all the sliders cranked and you still don't feel the challenge you want, there's always mods, and the game itself was designed to make it easy for the more avid gamer to dial it up to 11. If you want kobolds to put holes in your buckets, or slit straps of your armor so it breaks in battle, or spoil/steal all your stored food, or trample and ruin your crops and livestock, by all means, do it! If that's the kind of thing you find fun, knock yourself out! The only one keeping your from your fun is you. Before you insist the game isn't or shouldn't be this or that, though, you should take a look at the servers out there. Seems there is quite the player base for a more relaxed game. People who would rather spend their precious free time on accomplishing something like finishing the chiseling on their entryway, not toil on doing tedious maintenance on their homesteads, which fell apart because they had to spend all day at work instead of being in the game for the month that elapsed and their gardens turned to weeds and their stored food turned to rot. Who didn't get to see all the immersive changes in plant growth because they were too busy making sure the TPS reports had the right cover sheets.

This may or not be what the status effects update will contain. That will allow an expansion of foods, which kind of blocks anything with growing more or different crops at the moment. Like @LadyWYT said, don't undervalue the impact of HP. Between the percent reduction and the flat damage reduction those points multiply. Besides, thematically, whenever possible, I'd rather have bonuses for doing something well than penalties for doing something wrong. There is a already a great plenty negative reinforcement in the real world to cover most people.

I like to keep an eye on ModDB to see what kind of game players are choosing for themselves. There are mods that make things more difficult, or at least more tedious, but those generally don't get many downloads, while mods that let you convert crops to sees, or increase the number of seed drops are usually between 5 and 20 times as popular. Whether we are talking crops or trees or sticks or ores or terra preta high fertility soil or prospecting or whatever else, mods that make it less intense, even cozy are much more popular. I'm not for nerfing what's there, by any means. Just not sure whether it needs to be harder on the n00b. The learning curve was plenty steep when I started. Or as Dostoevsky put it in Anna Karenina, all cozy games are alike; each hardcore game is hardcore in its own way. Or something like that. It's been a while. I'm not even sure what he was getting at there, but I am sure it was deep because it was required reading. And had that gold embossed lettering on the binding.

Did you look at Simple Weight? It's not the kind of thing I do to make things harder, but I did give it a try in 1.19 or 1.20. It does more or less what you are asking for, including letting you configure weights of materials to your liking.

Depends on your location, but IRL, most caves are pretty steady year round, somewhere between 50F and 60F. (42.5-79.4 gigaNewtons/lumen) Very few are below freezing, and even then, not by much. There are some ice caves up by Barrow that stay below freezing, largely because the Ocean is wicking away the earth's heat. A Russian exchange student talked about some land-based caves like that somewhere in Siberia. I have never found out any more about them, and not from a lack of trying. I think the major discontinuity is trying to get something that represents the range of real conditions, from refrigerated to lava pool, in 100m of depth. The near surface cellars are reasonably accurate, assuming you are below the frost line. I don't know whether that would be easy to change up or not. I looked at it once back around 1.14, so I could make mountains more "realistic" but don't remember what I decided other than it was pretty good after all, if one went by % of worldheight instead of meters.

Welcome to the forums, @Vincent Schneider. Poplar would be a good addition for ultra-compact woodlots. Not sure they would look good with a log at the center. There's a tree that looks kind of like the poplar in some of the lower latitudes but it does not have a central core. How do you see it looking? Top view would be a"+", with the intersection being log, the arms being leaf blocks? That would let you nest them tightly. Resin is kind of oddball in that a single stack (32) is a lifetime supply. Maybe if you collected sap, had to boil it down, and had to break the cookpot to get it out? Maybe a pot full of 24 sap boils down to 4 or 6 resin? Have to play around with it. I suspect even 4 will make resin way too common. Two pots would give you a large gear, IIRC. Annual crop seeds are likely that way to keep food from becoming even less of a challenge. The game does not have compensating mechanisms like germination failure, cutworms, rot, etc. This way, the game limits how fast you can expand a field. Biennials, I think you would have to make the time between mature and seed much, much longer than a couple days. If you log out at night, by the time you wake up, an entire month might have passed. Plus, there being a story and all, t would be nice to be able to head out for a few in-game days on the story and not completely wreck your garden. It doesn't do that IRL. Carrots can sit there all winter long if need be, and still be OK to eat. Don't know much about tule, other than as currently balanced, you really need to be committed to the look to make it worthwhile.

On further review, I think you are right, @Teh Pizza Lady. I was focusing too much on the definition of the bloom itself, and the mix of voxel ranges being disabled, and not enough on the implications of the means chosen to add voxels and turn it into a usable ingot, the helve hammer. It would have been easier to just let the helve nudge voxels around, and just add those voxels to the original bloom, that that was not the route chosen.

I thought so, too, until I spent some time reading the json and the code. There's a lot more work than needed to be done just to fix a bug. And he didn't even use the variation on all of them, just a few. Maybe he added the code so he could tweak the frequency of missing voxels, sure, but adding that code only makes sense if it were intentional at some point. I don't get the complaining, though. Course, I didn't get the complaining about ebony and purpleheart and redwood not dropping enough seeds to have an ongoing woodlot. Maybe that was intentional? Sure would have been easier to have all uniform drops rather than adding extra code to treat them as variant drops. It's the game. Play it. On its terms. Or set up your own terms. He's bent over backwards to make that easy.

Why did they instead create something that disabled some of the voxels in the json AND created the C# code to use those keys? No one has even made a guess yet. If they considered it a bug, it would have been much easier to just fix it rather than create a new key/value and the code to use it. Change it if it bothers you. I do not believe it was a mistake. I think it is in the same vein as the nerfed leaf drops if you just chop down the tree. It's an incentive to make shears. Maybe @Teh Pizza Lady is right and this is the same thing. This is an incentive to build the helve.

Right, @TFT. Once you build your helve, you will never encounter the missing voxels again, which is why it's so rare. The people who will encounter it are those who for whatever reason can't find resin, or who choose to skip the bronze helve for some reason. There's very little point in putting it off and using up durability of your hammer for forging when a helve is so cheap and easy.

Sure. A lot of it depends on how much cassiterite I find. If I find a decent amount, of course it's quicker to cast a few axe heads instead. But the beauty of splitting with stone (or even bronze) is you need so little charcoal. Yeah, I used to focus on several pits about to 6x6x6, but anymore, I rarely need much more than the initial 2x2x1 and a later 3x3x2, well within reasonable for stone or flint splitting. It's the bloomeries and blooms and steel that make things so charcoal intensive. That and calcining flint, which you don't have to do much of if you aren't processing much iron. Yea, that's one of those efficiency things, some might even go so far as to call it speedrunning. I just consider it opportunity cost. You only need lots of durability if you want to make lots of high-durability stuff.

Meh. I've already explained how easy it would be to count voxels and figure out which blooms are problems, and most likely fixing it by simply re-enabling the problem "children", so easy that anyone here could do it, there has to be a reason it's remained. I'm with @Teh Pizza Lady -- someone miscounted, and liked the result, so it remains. But by all means, fix it if it bothers you so much. Literally no one is preventing you from doing that except you. Who would apparently prefer to have something to bitch about. [EDIT] I remember you once got around to patching something that bothered you. Don't remember what, but I do remember it was nowhere near as popular as one would think from all the bitching and moaning there was. Linen sacks being too expensive maybe?

I still use flint or even stone for most of that. Admittedly, I'm making a lot less firewood, not needing nearly as much charcoal, but it seems I always have some slack time, waiting for cooking to finish, for example. Or waiting around for the last of the turnips so I can get stuff growing. Ripe crops do not count as flowers, so I want them at the first and last stages for as little time as possible.

Interesting. Recently I've been focusing on copper and especially bronze for exactly the same reason. I can cast new tools vastly faster than I can beat them out on an anvil. By the time I have bombs, it's hard to justify making things out of iron. A stack of bronze axe heads works out a lot better than a single iron axe. Steel, dunno, maybe the faster cutting makes it worth it the extra effort and materials expended? Then again, I need a whole lot less resources like charcoal or iron ore if I'm using mostly bombs and bronze. The only point of a helve hammer becomes to make plates for lanterns, and with a "properly" sized apiary, candles are even better than lanterns. [EDIT] I still make the helve hammer and all, but it's mostly out of habit. Why waste the time getting resources for it if it has so little use?

Sometimes Wildcraft feels like this. You've got to slash and burn some of those on a regular basis or they do the Pinky and the Brain thing...

I do. I'm not sure it makes any difference, and the bronze is cheaper. The anvil does make a difference, I'm pretty sure. By the time I'm making a second helve, I'm second guessing myself, and always make it out of iron so I don't get blindsided if it really does take iron to do steel.

If you have one of these blooms now, you could try overwriting the definition, close the world, open the world, see if the bloom you have still looks the same. Undo your change, apply it to a different child, close, load. Repeat until you find out which it is.